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No.
- is an interruption to another sentence.

I walked out to see a man, with blue skin and-
Suddenly the world flipped upside down.

@Cipiteca396 I was told — and - are two different things

— : for interuption, like suddenly something else happened.

- : for added information, clarifying something.

@LuoirM The long one is called em-dash < click for more

— is a bit like a comma. You can’t use it like that. Here’s more info~ https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/em-dash/

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I gotta use Vietnamese to express my amazement all the knowledge I just gained from this status , the above barely translated to "holy fuck"

If you’re to lazy to read, TL;DR is:
You can use it to replace any of the following: , ; ( :
For parentheses, you can remove the ). For commas, it’s only when they are used like parentheses.

Em dash is like when I'm talking loudly, but then I feel the need to elaborate on something so I kinda lower my voice and tilt my head down to say it before going back to the loud talking?

Yeah it was short and concise no problem of reading it it's just I never thought of it

Wait so based on the thesaurus article, it's a UK US thingy?!

Em dash is like when I'm talking loudly, but then I feel the need to elaborate on something so I kinda lower my voice and tilt my head down to say it before going back to the loud talking?

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I would say so.

I don't know how to make that symbol, but the meaning isn't so different that it matters. Probably like twelve people know the difference.

The real problem is that you made a grammar error. [I walked out to see] is a broken clause. You should probably add something like 'a group of people standing around talking about the dungeon'. Then you can describe them all, no need for a delineation.

If you want to use that em dash, then this is the example google used for me.

• My favorite lipstick shade (which is always sold out) will be back in stock on Tuesday.

Replace the () with your em dash. That's what you're aiming for, I believe.
It can also be a normal interruption, like in my original example.

Thanks guys, tho, the examples I've been given is for shorter explaination, what if my explanation/elaboration would want to be longer but still considered an interruption, is there a thing to use? Ex: the op

Try an ordered list, or a colon/semicolon. Theoretically, the em dash should work as a replacement for those as well, but the OP is a bad example.

I. On the day of my middle school opening ceremony, my Hispanic mom—I was ashamed of her at the time—had been extra fussy with my hair(...)
II. That was what she was—a liar.

Using them is fun.

@Reinaislost
On ur second example, there was like a... build up pause between the two sentences right? Like for semicolons and colons, it's a pause to take a breather, but the en/em dash were like build up suspense slightly, but not to the point of three dots. As far as I understand?

I mean you could. I’d rewrite it as this:

I walked out to see a group of people—A man with blue skin with strange face tattoos, another tall man with light skin with no ears, and a human woman in all black except for her big wizard-like hat—talking about something something dungeon.

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